Quotes About Media

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

My pictures are airbrushed.

Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It's not why I started acting. I didn't get into acting to be written about. It kind of just happened - so I accept that it's my life.

Anna Wintour doesn't deal with pictures; she is just doing PR and business, and she scares everybody.

If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.

There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing anything exciting.

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

I've learned a lot just being around LeBron. People say things about him all the time, but he would never say anything back. That's what I learned from him: Don't retaliate to articles or pieces or to things that are said about me.

People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

When I'm on the couch, I usually have the TV on and my MacBook Air nearby. And sometimes, when my ADD is really kicking in, I have my iPad too. And my iPhone. And a magazine that I haven't gotten to. And a book under the pillow to my left.

Some people in the press don't respect people in life. I can put my head on my pillow and sleep great because I respect everyone.

I have this TV pilot I was writing for and a couple of films. It's just a different way to express myself.

Nobody knew if the pilot would even get picked up because it had two gay lead characters, which has never happened before. And now every show has at least two gay characters, if not many more.

I did a CNN pilot but they decided I wasn't Anthony Bourdain.

We've always dreamt of doing TV and movies and we shot two pilots for TV networks, but neither one went to series.

It doesn't matter if one is live on-air or sitting through a commercial break. There aren't any on or off switches on a lapel pin microphone; it is always 'hot.'

Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

The negativity will always be there. I think that's for any actress or actor. But I think you've got to take it with a pinch of salt.

There is this perception that TV is glamorous and it is the pinnacle of your existence - I don't think it is.